by Simon Gray · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862077232
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«The Smoking Diaries» is Simon Gray's personal diary, published by Granta Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In these pages, Simon Gray reviews his life with irony and no complacency: his fight against cancer, daily routines and habits, and his reflections on writing and theatre. The result is an intimate testimony, with moments of acid humour and an honesty that does not avoid the most painful aspects.
This 'New Ed' edition from Granta Books came out on 7 March 2005 and the work falls into the categories of biography and theatre.
Recommended for readers of biographies and memoirs, and for those interested in the figure of the playwright Simon Gray.
Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.
